Kaspar Memberger

(Johann) Kaspar Memberger the Elder (* approx. 1555; † approx. 1618 in Konstanz ) was court painter to Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau from 1593 to 1598 .

Life

Johann Caspar Memberger was a son of the painter Philipp Memberger. Although only a few works by him are known, he is considered an important representative of southern German mannerism. His earliest known work is a book illustration signed “CM” from 1569, which was commissioned by Mark Sittich von Hohenems , Bishop of Konstanz. Memberger traveled to Rome in 1579 with Bishop Markus Sitticus von Hohenems. There he was busy decorating the Palazzo Altemps, the cardinal's Roman residence. A Madonna in the Studiolo of the Palazzo Altemps previously attributed to Vitruvio Alberi is likely to be a fresco by Memberger.

In 1588 Memberger was appointed court painter to Prince-Bishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, who had probably met him in Rome from his uncle Markus Sitticus von Hohenems. Memberger's early works in Salzburg include a five-part cycle about the Flood, which he made for Wolf Dietrich in 1588. Comparisons with works by the Bassano family show that Memberger was familiar with their works. Memberger's portrait of Raitenauer reveals that the artist was also familiar with Roman and Florentine portrait painting. In 1598 he returned to Constance, where he worked at least until 1616. A cycle of 15 panel paintings in the Christ Church in Constance with scenes on the rosary also comes from him.

Membergerstrasse in Salzburg is named after him.

Works

Madonna and Child , 1589

• "Carrying the Cross", wall painting for the Romanesque cathedral, today in the collegiate church of St. Peter in Salzburg.
• 1588: 1. “The building of Noah's Ark”, oil on canvas, 128 × 166 cm, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, KHM GG 6202.
• 1588: 2. “Entry into Noah's Ark”, oil on canvas, 124 × 163 cm, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, KHM GG 2531.
• 1588: 3. “The Flood”, oil on canvas, 127.5 × 164 cm, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, KHM GG 2534.
• 1588: 4. “The Excerpt from Noah's Ark”, oil on canvas, 128 × 164 cm, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, KHM GG 2532.
• 1588: 5. “Noahs Dankopfer”, oil on canvas, 128 × 166 cm, oil on canvas, 128 × 166 cm, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, KHM GG 6204.
• 1589: "Madonna with Child", oil on canvas, 107.5 × 80.5 cm, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, inv. 451.
• 1589: portrait Eb. Wolf Dietrich "AETAT = SVAE.XXX.", Oil on canvas, 105.5 × 110.5 cm, Salzburg Museum Inv.-No. 21/25.
• 1596: Epitaph for Augustin Tondio († 1596), the secretary Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, painted wood, formerly in the Margaret Chapel in the cemetery of St. Peter , today Salzburg Cathedral Museum.
• 1602: “Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor with the prophets Elias and Moses and the Saints John, Peter and James”, with the founder Jacob Rassler (1568–1617), oil on panel, 179 × 119 cm, framed, private property.

literature

• Bernd Konrad: "Illumination in Konstanz, on the western and northern Lake Constance from 1400 to the end of the 16th century", in: E. Moser, Buchmalerei im Bodenseeeraum, 13th to 16th centuries , Friedrichshafen 1997, p. 109– 154.
• Wolfgang Lippmann: "Cardinal Marcus Sitticus Altemps and his grandson Giovanangelo Altemps - curial career, family status and cultural patronage", in: D. Büchel / V. Reinhardt (ed.), Die Kreise der Nepoten: New research on old and new elites of Rome in of the early modern period , Rome 2001, pp. 107-134.
• Marena Marquet: "Kaspar Memberger's Deluge Cycle - a" Copy to Bassano "?", In: Communications of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 135 (1995), pp. 637-688. [1]
• P. Petroria: Roma di Sisto V. Le Arti e la Cultura , cat. 4, Rome 1993.
• Ulrike Engelsberger / Franz Wagner (ed.): Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. Founder of baroque Salzburg , 4th Salzburg State Exhibition, May 16 - October 26, 1987 in the New Residence and Cathedral Museum in Salzburg, Salzburg 1987, pp. 331–335.

Web links

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